hasek3139 t1_j6gstg3 wrote on January 30, 2023 at 5:19 AM

Reply to comment by kjar78 in Bring back the whalers!!! by iwanttobehappy2022

Looks like the average is around 4K a game

And 2800 for Bridgeport

https://www.hockeydb.com/nhl-attendance/att_graph_season.php?lid=AHL1941&sid=2023

kjar78 t1_j6gv1wd wrote on January 30, 2023 at 5:42 AM

Early in the season the Wolf Pack were more in the 2,500-5,000 range. Since UConn left for Storrs, the bump in attendance has been quite noticeable.

Sat January 14: 6,189

Fri Jan 20: 7,032

Sat Jan 21: 4,960

Wed Jan 25: 1,947 (outlier, Wednesday games don’t draw as well as weekends and it was snowing that day)

Sat Jan 28: 6,780

Would love to see the figures for pre- and post-UConn move once the season is over.

hasek3139 t1_j6hlb1r wrote on January 30, 2023 at 11:28 AM

Well I’m glad they can draw in more, but Instill wish CT people would like hockey as much as they like uconn basketball, which seems to average 10k a game.

Big thing is hockey is not affordable, so a basketball has more of a reach.

I’d be interested to know how the whalers attendance would be if it were in maybe Stamford instead of Hartford

Looking at the 1990s, whalers attendance was abysmal…